WARREN ELLIS is a graphic novelist and author of the NYT best-selling novel GUN MACHINE. His graphic novel GLOBAL FREQUENCY is being developed for television by Jerry Bruckheimer and FOX. He is the writer of the graphic novel RED, adapted into the film starring Bruce Willis and Helen Mirren. His next book is NORMAL from FSG.

On April 7, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested Hideka Tada, age 38, who, writing for Dojinsha Co. under the pen name “Hideki Nonomura” has been acclaimed for his famous SM cartoons in which adolescent females with enormous breasts undergo acts of humiliation similar to the one above. Tada, it seems, wasn’t content merely to imagine such activities, but wanted to experience the real thing before turning to his sketchpad.

“Nonomura’s works were extremely popular. Bookstores would set up exclusive corners just to display his books. He was regarded by many as the ‘Emperor’ of this type of cartoon business and rumor had it he raked in 100 million yen a year via consignment sales to the media.”